Lever-escapement for watches and clocks.



N0. 855,950. PATENTED JUNE 4, 1907.

- E. H. HORN. LEVER ESC'APEMENT FOR WATCHES AND CLOCKS.

APPLIOATION FILED JAN.31,1907.

UNITE sTA Es RATION Inent Mechanism for Watches and 'Clocks;

and I ,do l'iereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying "drawings and the letters of reference marks d thereon, to he a full, clear, and exact descriptich of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and. rep resent, in-

Figure 1 a broken viowin 687333101101 a small clock-1novement provided with a leverescapeinent constructed in accordancewith my invention. Fig. 2 a plan view therw"v 3 a detached view of the safety and im pulse levers. Fig. 4 a. plan view the eoi. Fig. 5a detached View of the safety-lever. F ig. 6 a plan view thereof. Fig. 7 a detached view ofthe impulse-lever; 'l ig. s plan view thereof. 1

My invention relates to an improvement in that class of lever-escapements for watches, clocks and kindred mechanisms in vhich a. notched safety roller mounted on the halance-stafl is employed for preventing the imulse fork and impulse pi from escaping roin- .proper operative relations. v

Heretofore the sa'ietv'pin or safety l inner provided. for co;a(.-Ition with the said roller has generally 56.0 made independently oi and mounted dimen in the impulse-lever near the fork thereoi in position to enter the no chin the safety roller; Suchconstructions have been found objectionable for variety of reasons, among which may he mentioned, first, the OX )0I1SO attendant upon mounting so small -an( delicate a part in the impulse lever; second, the da'nqer ol' honding or otherwise deiorniiirg the unpul'se lever in riveting the safety pin or linger into it: third, the danger of deforming or injuring the safety pin" or finger itso'ltin riveting it'into' the impulse leverj'l ourth, the danger of loosening the safety pin .or linger in adj ust ing, it to secure its proper coaction with the safety roller j iilth, the diiliculty oi relasten: ing the pin or .linger should it get l oese: and sixth, the difliculty and expense of making partsso small and so delicate as e safet? pin Specification of Letters Patent.

pointed on strain imposed upon it FATE com

LEVER-ESCAPE!EMT. FCR AME) letentecl June 4, 1997.

Application filer} Jenner S- 1907. Serial H0. 355,163.

ieient accuracy for the best or finger with suit results. i are also aware that assist} iinger has been stru it out of the impulse lever,

but in this construction the finger cannot be adjusted without danger oi breaking it oil in which event the lever must be thrown away.

The object of my invention is to overcome these object-ions, and it consists in safetyleve .znade ntirel v inr enden t ofithe inimise-lever end in certain details of construcl he. heroineiter described and s the elsirns.

in carrying out my invention as herein shown, l employ a ltty-lever 2 'inounted directly upon the pails staii or arbor 3, which also carries the impulse-lever l, the two levers extending alongsidcor" each other as shown. in Figs. 2 and t, though ti s is not essent' 3 At its outer end the sa'lety leyer is temp-1i, shown, with a, safety-linger 5 which costin the suel nianner with a notched saret wroller mounted upon the balance-sta 7 which carries the halancewheel 8 end one end of the balance-spring 9.

Thehslanee whcel 8 is furnishedwith the usual impulse-pin 16 which coacts with the inipulsedorlc 11 located at the outer end of the impulsedever e the inner end of which is furnished with two pins 12 coacting with the teeth of tie es-capernent-wheel 13. shown the inner end oii'the saietvdever Z is widened as e" to reach between the two -escapmnentpins 12 of the impulse. that it will inzrintain' its balance or enough to have suii 'icient hody not to he.

and that all of the 1 adjusting it falls on the pallet-s rait or arbor 3 rather than upon the impulse-tori; and impulse-lever es heretoi ore. i

My improved safety-lever may be made in di'ilerent forms :wcordingto its use, but in every ciiseit will he inede independently of the impulse-lever and mounted independently thereof in position to enter the notch in the i t3: roller. e.n..-tlu= Balance-staff.

easily hent or broken oi an impulse-pin ear ed by the balance- Wheel an impulse-l veriprovided with enin1- pulse fork coaching with the said impulse pin, 2} safety-roller mounted upon the hole-new staff, and a safety-lever mode independently side of the some into position to (o-act with the said ently of the said impulse lever but oscillating upon the some center as the'soine.

Mae-fork eoeotiiw with the said win a allet rs l v oller and mounted indepemll l i l l l I l l assess stefii' or arbor on which the said in1pulselever 18 mounted, a safety-roller mounted upon the billfilllCG-Stflfi, and a sa fety-le ver (reacting with the said roller and made independent of the said1n1pulse-leverand extending alongof the impulse-lever and mounted upon the pallet stail or arbor.

in testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing WltIlGSSGR. 2. In a lever-escapement, the combination j with the l'ialence-wheel and balance-staff thereof, of an impulse-pin carried by the lmlonee-wheei an impulse-lever having an im- ER N EST H HORN.

Witnesses:

CLIFFORD HALL, CLEMENT 1. Unions. 

